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We’re ALL Being Watched – Bergoglio, Soros, Palo Alto, the NHS and… a Girls Gymnastics Coach

Surveillance is a big topic these days as it has come out into the open that all email, social media and smartphones are actively tracking and listening to everything and everyone.  But that isn’t what this piece is about.  This piece is about the age-old phenomenon of how Diabolical Narcissists operate, and specifically how they attain their strongest dose of narcissistic satisfaction, and how our society – ALL of us together, have been turned into a massive, constant source of narcissistic satisfaction to the DN monsters that move among us, and rule over us.

The example I’m going to use is a bit surprising, and one might think a bit far afield, but something I learned well in my days as a Cattle Marketing teacher (which was in turn taught to me by my teacher – an Old Timer, now deceased) was that often the best way to introduce and teach a concept was by using an example totally outside of the paradigm – in my case, the cattle business.  I would introduce the mathematical concept in terms of merchandising not cattle, but electronics.  All the cattlemen present would easily understand the mathematical paradigm precisely because they were not struggling with trying to make it conform to their prejudices, biases and exceptionally bad habits in the cattle business.  Once they understood the simple math presented to them in an outside context, they could then apply it to the Cattle business with much, much greater facility. This pedagogical method was one of the most brilliant things taught to me by the Old Timer that taught me the cattle business, and I have used it consistently ever since.  For those of you who have been to one of my Cattle Marketing schools, or have the DVD, can you imagine trying to start the Cattle Square and Valuation Tables WITHOUT first having done the VCR module?  It would be 100 times more difficult.

Anyway, I came across an example of a Diabolical Narcissist psychopath that ticks every box, and really demonstrates how DN psychopaths get their greatest rush and satisfaction NOT in the actual moment of inflicting abuse or committing crime.  No – the REAL rush for these monsters is the aftermath, specifically in watching their victims LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT, and oftentimes the victims even defend, protect, and even REWARD their DN abusers.  We will go through the micro example of Michigan-based girls gymnastics coach John Geddert, and then see how this dynamic maps onto so many macro systems today.

Some of you might have heard of the sexual abuse scandal in the world of American women’s gymnastics (girls, really – so-called “women’s gymnastics” is a children’s sport) surrounding a doctor named Larry Nassar.  Nassar was based out of a gym in Michigan owned by John Geddert.  This gym was very successful, and has produced world champion female gymnasts.  John Geddert was tapped to be the team coach for the U.S. olympic women’s gymnastics team in 2012.  Geddert was a very powerful and influential player in the U.S. gymnastics scene, and got his “friend” (remember, DNs are not actually capable of genuine friendship, which requires the capacity to love – DNs are, by definition, self-purged of love) Larry Nassar installed as the official doctor for USA Gymnastics, giving Nassar pretty much unlimited, unfettered access to the entire USA women’s gymnastics squad.  Nassar, also being a DN psychopath like his buddy John Geddert, descended into sexual perversion, and would use his access to young girls, almost all pre-pubescent, to digitally rape them, both vaginally and anally, during “treatments”.  In at least one case, Nassar, so emboldened and seeking the next-level high, did this to a girl while the girl’s mother was sitting in the exam room with her daughter.  But Nassar isn’t the example we will focus on – John Geddert is.

As we discuss in the Diabolical Narcissism video, DNs tend to be not only of above-average intelligence, but are often very high-functioning, charming, and successful in their fields.  Such is the case with John Geddert.  He did produce extremely good gymnasts, and ran a very successful gym.  He was charming, and parents admired and trusted him, so much so that parents were happy to essentially turn their children’s childhoods over to Geddert, sacrificing all normal childhood activities and pursuits, and oftentimes requiring homeschooling simply in order to accommodate the eight hour per day training regime.  Oh, and did I mention that the parents had to pay the gym THOUSANDS of dollars per month, generally in a direct deposit setup, many of them going into debt to do so? Not to mention all travel costs and equipment costs.

A very well-documented full expose piece on Geddert can be read HERE.  It reads as a near-perfect case-study of Diabolical Narcissism.  The first thing that stands out is the verbal abuse.  Screaming, yelling, brute intimidation, extreme profanity, threats, degradation.  Geddert’s excuse for this, on the very few instances he was ever challenged was CLASSIC DN: you made me do it, and it’s for your own good.  Several of Geddert’s gymnasts attempted suicide.  One girl, after intentionally overdosing on Valium and trying to explain to the hospital staff that she attempted suicide due to Geddert’s abuse, was told by Nassar that SHE needed to apologize to GEDDERT in order to be able to RETURN to Geddert’s gym – which she, with her parent’s approval and encouragement, did.  I am hard-pressed to think of a greater rush for a DN psychopath: driving an adolescent girl to attempt suicide, and after she tells her parents why she did it, the parents not only allow her to return to the man that caused it, but actively encourage the girl to APOLOGIZE TO HIM.

For the most severe DN psychopaths, driving people to suicide or attempted suicide is a major fantasy.  In the piece linked above, Geddert is reported to have regularly told young girls to “kill themselves” when they didn’t perform up to snuff in practice.  One girl, after rightly balking at performing a skill that she didn’t think she was able to do was called “a disrespectful bitch” by Geddert, and told to climb the rope to the rafter, and then jump off and kill herself.  But remember, Geddert claimed that this was “for her own good” and that she “made him do it.”  Oh, and did I mention?  This girl was TEN YEARS OLD at the time. Ten.

Some girls took Geddert’s suggestions about self-murder seriously. To control someone so much that the person will  forfeit their own life is a massive rush of Diabolical Satisfaction.  If we consider the mindset of actual demons, suicide is the ultimate victory.  Not only is the person lost to hell, but their final act is the ultimate betrayal of God – throwing God’s greatest gift, life, back in God’s face.  But what is perhaps an even greater rush is having the DN’s victim come crawling back and APOLOGIZING to the DN.  What power! And in the case of Geddert, it wasn’t just the children – it was, even more potently, the children’s parents that would come crawling back, begging for “forgiveness”, eager to continue to give thousands of dollars per month to Geddert.  In the case of the ten year old girl above, the mother EYEWITNESSED Geddert’s behavior.  When Geddert told the girl to kill herself, she ran towards her mother, telling her what Geddert had said – with Geddert following right behind her, still raging at her.  Again, Geddert did this RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MOTHER.  And the monthly direct deposits into Geddert’s account kept coming, and the parents continued to bring their daughter to Geddert every day for six more years.  When she was 16, she contracted mononucleosis, and while missing months of school, the girl was not permitted to miss ONE gymnastics practice.  Geddert physically assaulted the girl during this time, and then, upon the girl winning a competition, but not by A SUFFICIENTLY HIGH ENOUGH MARGIN OF VICTORY, Geddert unleashed a tirade on the floor of the gymnastics meet, in full view of all there present that was so severe that the judges gave him a “red flag” conduct warning.

Another girl, after attempting to tumble on a broken leg for fear of Geddert, and stumbling, was told by Geddert to “pack up your shit and get out of my gym.”  Geddert then followed the girl into the locker room, bellowing and raging all the way, and screamed in her face that she was a “spoiled f***ing brat”.  Remember, all this was done in full view of the entire gym.  And according to Geddert, the gymnasts “made him do it”, and it was always “for their own good”.

THIS is the ultimate rush to the DN.  And it provides a long-lasting, slow-burning “high” that is actually more desirable to the DN than the quick fix of the in-the-moment rush.  Think about it – is it really any big “accomplishment” for a grown man to physically bully and abuse a bunch of little girls?  No.  Although we can see why DNs so often choose children as their victims – simply because children are easy targets.  What IS a big deal, and a much more “valuable” target, is when the other adults, mothers, and especially the FATHERS of those little girls not only LET the DN abuse their children in front of them, but then grovel, apologize and ACH deposit thousands of dollars into the DN’s bank account after the fact, when the DN is called out – in this case by the attempted suicide of the child.

The modern pejorative term “cuck” inevitably springs to mind, which actually comes from a very real word, “cuckold”, which is a man who permits other men to have sex with his wife.  A man – a FATHER – who permits another man to abuse his own children – his own DAUGHTERS in front of him, it seems to me, is an even more pathetic specimen than an actual cuckold.  There is a far greater sense of total and complete capitulation and defeat in the latter, and John Geddert crushed these parents under his heel for his entire adult life.

I am so powerful, so superior, so worshipped, that I can do ANYTHING I want to these people and they will never, ever give me up. They will never walk away. Hell, they will even apologize to me for disappointing me. They will sacrifice their own children to me, thank me, and pay me for the privilege. Even the powers-that-be won’t touch me.  The rules do not apply to me.  The laws do not apply to me.  I am untouchable. I am other. I am above everyone and everything. These people are lower than insects, contemptible and deserving of only my disdain, and I am a god. That I tolerate them at all is an act of extreme generosity and condescension on my part.

I’d encourage you to read the whole piece on Geddert, and see if you can identify all of the Diabolical Narcissism dynamics, including the Alpha-Beta dynamics swirling around between Geddert (pure Alpha), Nassar (Beta to Geddert’s Alpha), Geddert’s wife (Beta herself, of just an effeminate enabler/victim? – not enough info to say), and the parents and other coaches in Geddert’s gym (Betas or merely effeminate hangers-on?).  Look at what the parents’ motivations were – association with an “elite” gym and coach, the promise of college scholarships (and the threat of losing said scholarships due to Geddert’s mafia-like influence in the NCAA), and perhaps most importantly, fear of blackballing, retaliation or ruination by the DN psychopath.

THEY WANT TO BE SEEN.

Now, let’s apply what we have learned to the more mainstream, macro-level examples of Diabolical Narcissist Pychopathy.  It is tempting to look at the bad behavior of DN psychopaths and jump to the conclusion that they are lacking self-awareness, are functionally “dumb”, and don’t know how to properly “manage their image”, to put it in purely pragmatic terms.  This assumption is incorrect.  The vast majority of the time, the open “bad behavior” is 100% calculated, and totally self-aware.  Bad behavior in public is an ESSENTIAL PART of the DN paradigm.  In terms of the preternatural, that is, actual demons, the word used is “manifestation”.  This is EXACTLY the same term we should use for the open bad behavior of Diabolical Narcissists.  DNs MANIFEST, and derive their most intense satisfaction from the toleration, acceptance, defense and even enabling and cooperation of those who witness their MANIFESTATIONS.

EXAMPLE NUMBER 1: ANTIPOPE BERGOGLIO

Those of us tapped into the info stream coming out of Rome began hearing of Antipope Bergoglio’s MANIFESTATIONS very early on in the antipapacy.  And I’m not talking yet about the public statements of heresy.  I’m initially talking about Jorge Bergoglio’s day-to-day behavior inside the Vatican.  What was reported immediately by people who knew him in Argentina, and carried over into his usurpation in Rome, as confirmed in Henry Sire’s book, “The Dictator Pope”, is Bergoglio’s incredibly, stunningly foul mouth.  We aren’t talking about a man merely using cuss words – even the worst, like the “f” word.  No, we are talking about BLASPHEMOUS curses, often involving sexual perversion mixed with the sacred, that took even the godless degenerates in the Vatican Bathhouse Complex aback.  Remember the instances when Antipope Bergoglio dropped the words “corporophagia” and “corporphilia”?  The concept of “shit-eating” is a daily-driver in Antipope Bergoglio’s lexicon of blasphemy.  The screaming, raging fits, the most famous being the episode in ARSH 2014 when a group of Cardinals sent a letter the Antipope Bergoglio protesting the completely tyrannical procedure in the Synod Against the Family, whereupon Antipope Bergoglio, during the lunch hour, threw a screaming, bellowing, raging fit of such severity in the Casa Santa Marta dining hall, that the Swiss Guards  CLEARED THE BUILDING.  Bergoglio was bellowing, “I’m in charge here! I’ll have their hats!”  This wasn’t Bergoglio being “dumb” or lacking self-awareness.  This was Bergoglio MANIFESTING, and then watching as NOT ONE of the many dozens of people who witnessed the manifestation would dare speak publicly about it.

Arguably, however, the greatest rush Antipope Bergoglio gets as he manifests, is his near-daily public utterance of heresy, and his open pogrom (yes, p-o-g-r-o-m: a massacre, an attempted extermination) against Jesus Christ and His Holy Church.  Frank Walker over at Canon212 keeps a daily tally of how many days it has been since the Four Cardinals presented Antipope Bergoglio with the Dubia – which has gone unanswered, but even more importantly, without any follow-up correction.  It is precisely the SILENCE, and even the words of groveling deference, and “assurances of loyalty” by men like Cardinal Burke that provides the greatest rush to the DN Psychopath Bergoglio.  It isn’t just the “doing it”, it is the GETTING AWAY WITH IT.

What one realizes is that usurping the Papacy, as Antipope Bergoglio has done, is, far and away, the single most potent vector for this paradigm of Diabolical Narcissist Psychopath MANIFESTATION and SURVEILLANCE.

-We aren’t simply talking about some thug who owns a gymnastics studio, watching parents allow him to openly abuse their children.
-We aren’t simply talking about a cadre of bureaucrats and judges in the NHS, watching a nation as they openly imprison and execute a little boy.
-We aren’t simply talking about some CEO of a brokerage firm or bank, watching an entire industry and government as he openly steals billions.
-We aren’t talking about a Palo Alto oligarch, watching the world as he openly makes billions off of clandestinely surveilling every man, woman and child, and then openly lies about it.
-We aren’t talking about a Hollywood producer, watching the entire movie industry as he openly assaults and rapes casting-couch starlets.
-We aren’t talking about a powerful TV news anchor, watching the entire media juggernaut as he openly harasses and fornicates in the workplace.
-We aren’t talking about a presidential candidate, watching the world as she openly lies, rages at subordinates, engages in racketeering, treason, and murder.
-We aren’t talking about the President of the United States, openly lying and openly carrying on affairs in the White House (take your pick here – it applies to most of them).

What we are talking about is the most severe case of this possible on earth.  We are talking about a man who has usurped the one and only office in the entire world that has literal, supernatural protection and authority. Stop and think about that.  We are talking about a man who is demanding that people commit spiritual suicide and cooperate with full assent and perfect docility to his pogrom of destruction of The Church, lyingly leveraging the authority of Jesus Christ Himself.  We are talking about a man who all day, every day, wallows and luxuriates in the sight of an entire planet WATCHING HIM as he openly calls good evil, and evil good, and openly spews satanic heresy after satanic heresy, and grovel before him, calling him “Holy Father”, while the actual Holy Father – Pope Benedict XVI – remains very much alive, and very much in plain sight.

You better believe that Antipope Bergoglio is WATCHING US, SURVEILLING US every time a believing Catholic contorts themselves into a perverse pretzel declaring Antipope Bergoglio’s open crimes against God, His Church and every human being by extension, to be “not so bad”, “a misunderstanding”, “a mistranslation”, “above my paygrade”, “none of my concern”, or any other of the myriad excuses that people make for him – as proof of their piety, no less.

You better believe that Antipope Bergoglio is watching us, surveilling us, as he insults us and abuses us, and we continue to tolerate and grovel – just like the parents of the little girls in John Geddert’s gym.  “We can’t say anything!  He’s too powerful!  If we cross him, he will blackball us! He is so popular, everyone will hate us if we say anything against him!”

This Bergoglian Antipapacy is, quite possibly, the single greatest Diabolical Narcissist Psychopath power play ever executed to date by a human being.  1.2 billion Catholics bowing and scraping before him as he openly tries to completely destroy The Church Militant, while simultaneously erecting the satanic Antichurch; the rest of the planet cheering him as he ratifies all sin, including sodomy, declares hell non-existent, and deifies man by declaring the individual conscience the arbiter of truth and morality and the adjudicator of guilt, and thus denying the salvific work of Christ.

Make no mistake, our silence is their most potent drug.  Our supine, effeminate enabling is the steady dose of “DN methamphetamine”, mainlined directly into their jugular. We are both the drug, and the delivery mechanism.

You better believe you’re being watched.

(Remember, neither Bergoglio’s Diabolical Narcissistic Psychopathy nor heresy is what makes him an Antipope.  It was Pope Benedict XVI’s invalid attempt at “partially resigning” that enabled Bergoglio’s usurpation. ANYONE “elected” in the faux-conclave of ARSH 2013 would have been an Antipope.)

I am so powerful, so superior, so worshipped, that I can do ANYTHING I want to these people and they will never, ever give me up. Hell, they will even apologize to me for disappointing me. They will sacrifice their own children to me, thank me, and pay me for the privilege. Even the powers-that-be won’t touch me.  The rules do not apply to me.  The laws do not apply to me.  I am untouchable. I am other. I am above everyone and everything – including God. These people are lower than insects, contemptible and deserving of only my disdain, and I am a god. That I tolerate them at all is an act of extreme generosity and condescension on my part.

 

 

 

 

Starting Wednesday Off Right: St. Anthony Called It 800 Years Ago

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

“Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day’s problems.”
-St. Anthony of (???????)

UPDATE:

Aw, poor St. Anthony.  It seems that the quote above, awesome as it is, is probably apocryphal.  It is either non-attributed, or maybe perhaps a paraphrase of something St. Anthony the Abbot said.  Either way, here is another quote from St. Anthony of Padua that we can be sure of:

“The Creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.”

Princessing Ain’t Easy, Y’all.

And the LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they are as the stones of a crown, sparkling in His land.
-Zechariah 9: 16

Her Serene Highness the Tiny Princess, holding court today in the throne room at Schloss SuperNerd, wearing her crown, designed and fabricated by her older sister, the Princess Royal, of gold with twelve points adorned with alternating round cut rubies and pink sapphires.

Starting Tuesday Off Right: St. John of Sahagún Edition

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

 

“… A preacher must be prepared in his soul to speak the truth, both in denouncing and correcting shortcomings and in praising virtue, to such a point that he is willing in that cause even to face death.”
– Saint John of Sahagún (ARSH 1419 – 1479)

If I Smoked Cigarettes (which I have never, do not, and will never), I’d Be Lighting One Up Right Now…

BillyJeff Blythe (Clinton), a literal son of a whore, just declared the moral norms and standards of forcible rape to be… evolving.

Anybody gotta match?

William Jefferson Clinton, you psychopathic son of a bitch: you forcibly raped Juanita Broaddrick, and probably others, and should spend the rest of your life locked in a super-max cell in total isolation with your demoniac dyke wife.  Maybe then you will repent, enter the Church, make a good confession, and die in a state of grace.  Because Hillary is as close as you can get in this mortal coil to hell.  Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY to escape eternal, unending torment by that uber-psycho harpy bitch you “married”.

Someone needs to explain to him that the damned torment the damned in hell.  I’m totally serious when I say that this COULD stir sentiments of fear and contrition in even the most depraved soul – as BillyJeff is.

Barnhardt Podcast #052: The Melting of Modern Men from Meek to Mediocre

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In this episode we LOUDLY discuss a recent US Navy investigation which revealed that only 27 of 164 randomly selected, “qualified” officers could carry out their duties without any concerns. While we can guess at the causes for this it’s symptomatic of world-wide slide toward mediocrity and away from manly virtues, meekness being a big one. During this month of the Sacred Heart it would behoove His advice to “Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart!”

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And Now A Word From Ronan Farrow’s Father….

The odds that Woody Allen is Ronan Farrow’s father are just about equal to the odds that I, Ann Barnhardt, am Ronan Farrow’s father.

Sorry, but things like this tend to stick in my craw – very much like the whole notion that Michael Jackson “fathered” those three poor children that he bought and paid for from breeding sows and sperm donors.  Dark-skinned black men (which Jackson very much was) don’t throw silky-haired, blue-eyed, tall-narrow-nosed, lily-white calves. That’s just genetics.  Dominant genes, such as dark skin and, especially, coarse hair, express.  Period. And Woody Allen, a spectacularly physically repellant Jew, doesn’t throw a son that is a dead-ringer clone for Mia Farrow’s lifelong, handsome, on-again-off-again fornication partner.  Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

But I do love a lot of Sinatra’s oeuvre.  Francis sure could sing.  Enjoy “The Way You Look Tonight”. If you ever find yourself in Rivertown hanging out with me, remember that “Francis” in my mind is either St. Francis of Assisi, or Francis Albert Sinatra. There is no third.

Mysteries and Fruits of the Rosary

By request, someone asked if I could just list the Mysteries of the Rosary, and their Fruits.  Of course.

THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES

  1. The Annunciation – Humility
  2. The Visitation – Charity, Love of Neighbor
  3. The Birth of Jesus – Spirit of Poverty
  4. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple – Obedience, Love of The Law
  5. Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple – Joy at Finding Jesus

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

  1. Our Lord’s Agony in the Garden – Sorrow for Sin
  2. The Scourging at the Pillar – Purity
  3. The Crowning with Thorns – Moral Fortitude, Courage
  4. The Carrying of The Cross – Patience
  5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord on The Cross – Perseverance unto Salvation

THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES

  1.  The Resurrection – Faith
  2. The Ascension – Hope
  3. The Descent of the Holy Ghost Upon the Apostles and Mary – Love of God, Zeal
  4. The Assumption of Our Lady Into Heaven – Grace of a Happy, Holy, Provided Death
  5. The Crowning of Our Lady as Queen of Heaven – Trust in Mary’s Intercession

People often ask if it is “ok” to also pray the “Luminous” Mysteries that were introduced by John Paul II.  The answer is, sure, as long as you also pray The Rosary. The Rosary, as given to St. Dominic by the Mother of God herself, is certainly not lacking nor incomplete in any way, and is comprised of 150 Hail Marys precisely because there are 150 Psalms, and thus it also acts as proxy for the Psalter. The notion that everything must be “updated”, “changed” and “improved” is an incredibly unhealthy and dangerous mindset.

“The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.” – Pope St. Pius X

Starting Monday Off Right: Speaking of Good and Holy Priests Edition

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

Sweepy, sweepy….

Today is the feast of a fairly obscure saint, St. Francis Caracciolo, and in re-reading just the little Wikipedia page about him, I was gobsmacked by all of his supremely admirable qualities, so much that I thought to myself, “This guy is the complete package in terms of the priesthood.”

Here are just a few highlights:

  • Upon ordination, St. Francis Caracciolo joined the Confraternity of the White Robes of Justice, a confraternity dedicated to assisting condemned criminals to die a holy death.  What a noble apostolate.  If you would like to read more about the Death Penalty, and it is an essential part of a Catholic society precisely because it affirms the dignity of man, first and foremost the criminal himself, check out this piece that I wrote several years ago after having a Mass said for Jamie Dimon – yes, J.P. Morgan Jamie Dimon. It is no quirk or mistake that the Culture of Death that we live in is stridently against the Death Penalty and seeks to eliminate it, and that the Culture of Life, fully-formed, understands the Death Penalty to be an essential component of any society which confesses Jesus Christ as its Sovereign King.
  • A letter was mistakenly delivered to St. Francis Caracciolo which was actually meant for another man, one Fr. Fabrizio Caracciolo.  In this letter, the sender, a priest in Genoa, was urgently asking that a new religious community be formed by Fr. Fabrizio.  St. Francis Caracciolo, seeing that the delivery was a mistake, still took the letter as a clear communiquė from The Divine Providence, and immediately went to work establishing a new congregation.  Look at the virility and potency on display here.  Today, people refuse to act even when being beaten over the head with sign after sign after sign.  This is due to effeminacy (refusing to do something because it might result in a reduction in earthly pleasure, such as loss of income, prestige, physical comforts, etc.) and sloth (refusing to do something because the task is difficult).
  • One of the pillars of the community St. Francis Caracciolo founded was PERPETUAL ADORATION of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.  ‘Nuff said.
  • Even as Superior of the order he founded, he insisted upon sharing menial tasks, such a sweeping floors (hence the image above), and washing the dishes.  When a priest displays an unwillingness, refusal, or resentment at having to do menial tasks, this is a huge red flag, and is a prominent manifestation of EFFEMINATE CLERICALISM.  Just as Our Lord worked in St. Joseph’s woodshop, good and holy priests NEVER use their clerical state in order to shirk work, and are happy helpers and leaders by example when it comes to work, especially menial tasks. (This character trait also applies in the secular world.  Good bosses and leaders have no problem doing whatever job needs to be done, no matter how menial, and are eager to do it if they are available and it does not take them away from another duty.)
  • St. Francis Caracciolo loved the confessional, and spent countless hours hearing confessions.  Good priests love the confessional, and not uncommonly refer to it as “the best part of my day”.
  • St. Francis Caracciolo would spend most nights in adoration of Our Lord before the tabernacle, and would often catch a few winks by simply lying down upon the steps of the altar and sleeping at Our Lord’s “feet”, so to speak.
  • He often wept in prayer, constantly repeating the verse from Psalm 68, “The zeal of Thy House hath eaten me up.” When he died, his heart was found to be “burned” inside his chest, with those very words “Zelus domus Tuæ comedit me” branded around it.
  • Very predictably, he was hated by others within the Church for the great success of his Order, and was constantly opposed and calumniated.

St. Francis Caracciolo, pray for priests (!), pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.